Programme Officer – Biodiversity and Programme Support (P-2), PGLT CEED, outposted Nairobi (Temporary Appointment 364days) # 00127295

UNICEF works in a number of the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in the world’s most deprived youngsters. To save lots of their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.

Throughout 190 nations and territories, we work for each baby, in every single place, day by day, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means hand over.

Disasters, local weather change, and environmental degradation current vital and escalating threats to the well-being of youngsters globally, jeopardizing the progress achieved in baby survival and improvement. Over a billion youngsters are uncovered to extreme dangers from local weather and environmental hazards resembling heatwaves, floods, and cyclones. Consequently, it’s crucial for nations to determine climate-resilient, low-carbon social providers encompassing water and sanitation, healthcare, schooling, vitamin, social safety, and baby safety to sort out present threats and put together for more and more extreme impacts.

In alignment with our dedication to guard youngsters and younger individuals worldwide, UNICEF is launching its Sustainability and Local weather Motion Plan (SCAP) 2023 – 2030.  The SCAP prioritizes pressing local weather motion by systematic change in partnership with private and non-private sectors to prioritize the wants of youngsters and younger individuals and construct their resilience to the local weather threats at hand.  The SCAP strives to mainstream sustainability and local weather motion each internally and externally, by defending the lives, well being and well-being of youngsters and their communities; empowering youngsters with developmental alternatives and expertise; and lowering emissions and the environmental footprint inside UNICEF.

UNICEF is dedicated to making sure that insurance policies are inclusive of youngsters and younger individuals’s views and rights and tackle their distinctive vulnerabilities to make sure that their well being, security, and well-being are protected now and sooner or later.

For each baby, Hope for all……

The Biodiversity and Programme Help Officer could have the next obligations as a part of the local weather change, atmosphere, power, and catastrophe threat discount (CEED) staff and below the shut supervision and steerage of their supervisor: 1) Coordinating organizational platforms and offering help to make sure youngsters’s points, wants, and views are championed in local weather and environmental insurance policies and programmes and a couple of) Supporting the shaping and improvement of the group’s programmes and insurance policies as associated to biodiversity safety.

How will you make a distinction?

Programme Help and Improvement:

• Help the event of UNICEF’s programmes with a major concentrate on biodiversity, figuring out strategic motion areas that leverage the group’s collaborative benefit.
• Form UNICEF’s advocacy and coverage work to emphasise biodiversity safety and combine it inside wider local weather, power, and environmental methods, together with catastrophe threat discount.
• Set up monitoring frameworks to particularly consider the outcomes and impacts of biodiversity conservation efforts inside the broader sustainability and local weather programming.

Coverage Advocacy and Coordination:

• Help the combination of biodiversity targets in organizational multi-sectoral and multi-regional coverage initiatives, significantly by the SCAP implementation.
• Arrange and ship coverage displays, workshops, and seminars that concentrate on selling UNICEF’s agenda for biodiversity conservation, participating related key stakeholders.

Analysis and Evaluation:

• Conduct analysis and supply knowledge to information coverage and programming choices with a specialised concentrate on biodiversity and its essential function inside the local weather and environmental sectors.
• Collect and analyze proof to construct compelling funding circumstances for funding initiatives that prioritize biodiversity alongside UNICEF’s sustainability and local weather targets.

Communication and Stakeholder Engagement:

• Create platforms and initiatives that deliver consideration to biodiversity as a central theme in local weather and environmental discourse, particularly from the attitude of youngsters and youth.
• Strengthen communication methods and data administration to spotlight youngsters’s distinctive insights and wishes in biodiversity conservation inside environmental insurance policies and programmes.
• Actively take part in inner and exterior conferences, contributing insights and advocating for biodiversity conservation to be a core consideration in all discussions pertaining to UNICEF’s environmental, local weather, and sustainability agendas.

 To qualify as an advocate for each baby you’ll have…

• A college diploma in local weather change, environmental science, engineering, catastrophe administration, Worldwide Improvement, Worldwide Relations, Authorities, Public Administration, Public Coverage, Social Coverage or different related disciplines is required
• A minimal of two years of related work expertise in areas associated to sustainability, worldwide improvement, catastrophe administration, environmental points, public coverage, social coverage, and kids’s well being and wellbeing is required
• Particular expertise in coverage/programming help, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and analysis associated to local weather change, atmosphere or catastrophe threat discount is required ideally in a creating nation context
• Information on local weather, atmosphere, and DRR impacts, assessments, and adaptation options required
• Familiarity with youngsters’s rights within the context of local weather change, environmental degradation and catastrophe threat discount
• Expertise in creating instruments, and offering coaching, significantly as a part of a world/regional function in help of different nation workplaces can be thought of an asset.
• Expertise engaged on CEED points inside UNICEF or different worldwide improvement companies is taken into account an asset.
• Fluency in English is required. Information of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish) or a neighborhood language is an asset.

For each Baby, you reveal…

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief, Accountability (CRITA), and sustainability

Please click on Here to view UNICEF’s core values and Here to view our competency framework.

UNICEF competencies required for this publish are.

• Demonstrates Self Consciousness and Moral Consciousness (1)
• Works Collaboratively with others (1)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (1)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (1)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (1)
• Drives to realize impactful outcomes (1)

UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived youngsters and our international workforce should mirror the variety of these youngsters. The UNICEF family is committed to including everyone, regardless of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender id, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or every other private attribute.

We provide a wide range of benefits to our staff, a variety of advantages to our workers, together with paid parental depart, breastfeeding breaks, and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages using versatile working preparations.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and targets of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority, and discrimination.

UNICEF is dedicated to selling the safety and safeguarding of all youngsters. All chosen candidates will, due to this fact, bear rigorous reference and background checks, and can be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas.

Background checks will embody the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to offer further data to conduct a background test.

UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance. 

Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the obligation station, which can be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments might also be topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid).

Authorities workers which might be thought of for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking over an project with UNICEF.

UNICEF reserves the precise to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance just isn’t obtained, or obligatory inoculation necessities usually are not met, inside an inexpensive interval for any purpose.

“UNICEF solely considers larger academic {qualifications} obtained from an establishment accredited/acknowledged within the World Greater Schooling Database (WHED), a listing up to date by the Worldwide Affiliation of Universities (IAU) / United Nations Instructional, Scientific and Cultural Group (UNESCO). The record will be accessed at http://www.whed.net/”

For extra data on remuneration and advantages, please go to UNICEF’s Entitlements’ page.  If you need to search out estimates for entitlements, you might use the web Salary Estimate Calculator

• Solely shortlisted candidates can be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of.